destroy

Significado (Inglês)

  1. (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
  2. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
  3. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
  4. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
  5. (informal, transitive) To utterly defeat; to crush.
  6. (transitive) To remove data.
  7. (slang, transitive) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
  8. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
  9. (US, slang, transitive) To sing a song extremely poorly.
  10. (slang, transitive) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.

Freqüência

B1
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/dɪˈstɹɔɪ/
Etimologia (Inglês)

In summary

From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrugō, from Classical Latin dēstruō, from dē- (“un-, de-”) + struō (“I build”).

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